India
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languages,culture
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diversity
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Another less-understood aspect of the debate on linguistic integration is the ongoing north-to-south migration of workforce. As this article points out, the southern States in India — Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu — have already either achieved or are nearing replacement fertility levels. This means greater migration from the other States, including Hindi-speaking ones, will be needed to aid the workforce. According to the census figures of 2011, Tamil Nadu’s migrant population surged by 98% between 2001 and 2011, Kerala’s by 49%, Karnataka’s 50% and Andhra Pradesh’s 40%.
In the near future, the State and the migrating population, both, will face a challenge: should they expect the local people in the State to learn the migrants’ own language? Or should the migrants make an effort to learn the destination State’s language and get integrated into the local culture? The fault-lines created by the schism caused by linguistic and cultural differences are already visible in the form of the vandalism that has been aimed at the use of Hindi in public places in parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Mr. Devy has a few suggestions in this regard. He says we need to learn to recognise some cities as “multilingual cities” just like “smart cities”, those needing a different legal framework. “Just as we created linguistic States during the 1950s-60s, the time has come for us to create multilingual city-States/Central Territories.”
Mahatma Gandhi, a largely self-taught polyglot, has said in his autobiography My Experiments with Truth that in all Indian curricula of higher education, there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides, of course, the local language of the particular region. He says if the education were more systematic, learning the languages could be a source of pleasure.
This argument can be slightly modified to say that as part of a three-language formula followed in schools, there can be at least one language from the Indo-Aryan family of languages and one from the Dravidian family to aid better linguistic integration. About 95% of all languages spoken in our country can be considered part of either of the two language families. If taught and learnt in the right way, the knowledge of any one Indo-Aryan language — like Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi and Hindi — can aid the knowledge of other akin languages. The same applies to the Dravidian languages — Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. Know one language and the doors will open for the learning of the others, provided the support exists.
Mr. Devy feels that it is also important to create employment in the teaching of the tongues. “The desire to protect and promote languages can ultimately be fulfilled if we think of creating employment in these languages. Even planning at the Central level needs to incorporate a micro-element of language for planning for different districts and cultural regions,” he says.
Failing to recognise the dangers inherent in the ‘imposition project’ will create a demographic time-bomb out of the demographic dividend.
He also says there can be greater emphasis on translations. Further, “universities can propose extra-credits for students learning some other Indian languages… They can be popularised through a national language promotion mission, either by volunteers or institutions”.
Many Indians are bilingual by default. As per Census 2001, about 255 million Indians — more than a quarter of the total population — spoke at least two languages while 87.5 million spoke at least three. Our society, multicultural by default, can be made multilingual by design if the right interventions, at State and non-State levels, are taken. However, the Centre’s current efforts — placing an excessive focus on the Sanskritised version of Hindi — would aid only in fuelling greater insecurity among the local people of the regions where the language is not spoken. The government — through its Department of Official Language, under the Home Ministry — allocates huge amounts towards a tongue that is spoken by less than half of our population. A portion of those funds, if allocated to institutions dedicated to other languages, will foster a greater spirit of nationhood. Failing to recognise the dangers inherent in the ‘imposition project’ will create a demographic time-bomb out of the demographic dividend.
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true my friend
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it is true that India has many languages,cultures and diversity